World Listening Day is being organized by the World Listening Project, in partnership with the Midwest Society for Acoustic Ecology. July 18 was chosen as the date for World Listening Day because it is the birthday of the Canadian composer R. Murray Schafer, who is one of the founders of the Acoustic Ecology movement. The World Soundscape Project, which Schafer directed, is an important organization which has inspired a lot of activity in this field, and his book The Soundscape: Our Sonic Environment and the Tuning of the World helped to define many of the terms and background behind the acoustic ecology movement.
The World Listening Project invites you to participate in World Listening Day. Here are several possibilities—
/ You can set aside some time when you pay attention to your soundscape.
/ You can organize a soundwalk or a listening party when people play field recordings.
/ You can organize a performance event that involves field recordings and other artistic expressions that explore our soundscape and how we can listen to our sonic environment.
/ You can facilitate an educational event that relates to acoustic ecology, field recordings, or a similar topic.
/ You can contact organizations that are participating in World Listening Day, to see if you
can get involved that way.
http://www.worldlisteningproject.org/?p=667
http://www.worldlisteningproject.org
http://mwsae.org
thanks to Savaran
